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Decorating Your Mantle For Fall

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If you have a mantle in your home, consider yourself lucky.  It can be one of the most beneficial places to add to your home, yet at the same time be a difficult one as well.  If you have ever tried decorating a mantle, you know that it’s not an easy task.  Finding the right balance of color, texture and dimension comes with a lot of practice and inspirations and thanks to this post from Creations by Kara, the job can be that much easier.

Look around her blog and through this post and see what kind of inspiration you can come up with for decorating your home for the Fall season.  This sure gave me a lot of beautiful ideas.  What about you?

Read the post here: 30 Beautiful Fall Mantles

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Garage Door Halloween Decorations

This Garage Door Halloween Decoration project is such a fun way to make a big Halloween statement without needing to decorate the whole yard. Instead of a small wreath or porch sign, this idea turns the entire garage door into a spooky silhouette scene, complete with witches, pumpkins, trees, cats, and creepy Halloween shapes.

I really like this one because it has huge visual impact from the street. The black silhouettes against the pale garage door make the design easy to see, even from a distance, and it gives the whole house that haunted Halloween feel without being too gory or scary. It is perfect for families who want something dramatic but still fun for trick-or-treaters.

This is also a great project if you enjoy cutting your own shapes from cardboard, poster board, foam board, or lightweight plastic sheets. You could keep the design simple with just bats and pumpkins, or go all out with witches, trees, ghosts, black cats, and cauldrons. Add a few outdoor spotlights or battery lights nearby and it would look amazing at night.

What makes this project especially clever is that the garage door becomes the backdrop, so you do not need a lot of expensive supplies to fill a large space. It is bold, budget-friendly, and very customizable.